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GAPPING, DEOAPPING, AND ORIMPING IMPLEMENT. No. 355,362. 3 Patented Jan. 4, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICEO CAPPING, DECAPPING, AND CRIMPING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,362, dated January 4, 1887.

Application filed August 21, 1886. Serial No. 211,488. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREEMAN O. W'ksHEURN, a citizen of the United States, residing at WVellsborough, in the county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Capping and Crimping RifleShells; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention will first be describedin con nection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings is an elevation in perspective; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section 011 line a: :r ofFig. 3; Fig. 3, a plan view with the lever removed. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section through line 3 y of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a vertical cross-section on line z of Fig. 3; and Figs. 6 and 7, detail views.

In the drawings, "A represents the framework secured detachably to a suitable bed or base, and B the lever for loading, capping and decapping rifle shells. The lever B is constructed with hole 11*, and provided with the screw b, so as to act with the extractor 0 and slide 7i in capping and uncapping the shells.

a is the cap or primer receiving-tube, which is a tube slotted at a and open at the bottom, so as to take up the primers one by one. The receiving-tube, with its caps, is then placed in the receiver 5, the slot to registering with the receiverslot b.

c is the loading-rod, which carries at one end the steel pin 0, that works in slots a b, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, just above the caps. The pin 0' holds the caps in place while the receiving-tube a, which straddles the pin, is drawn out by means of its open slot. The retainer (1, having a ball or weight at the upper end, is now placed in the receiver Z), to feed the caps into position as they are needed.

In order to cap the shells, hold the lever B perpendicular, remove from the cap-extractor ethe shell from which the cap has been extracted and place it in the slot f. Now place another shell, with an exploded primer in it, on the capextractor e and force the lever B to the right. Thus one shell is capped while another is uncapped.

In order to crimp shells they are placed one by one in the hole 9 at the left of the machine, to which side thelever B is borne down, being pressed against the shell, while the latter is turned round with the finger and thumb. The fixed guide-tube g has an open end, g,directly opposite to the hole 9, so as to hold the shell transversely level while being crixnped by the crimper g on lever B. The receiver 1) has a hollow screw at the lower end,which works in a nut Z)", under which passes the slide 71. latter has a cap hole, It, in which the primer is carried to its place over a cartridge, This slide has upon its rear end a vertical pin, which passes up through a slot, j, of the auxiliary lever J, fulcrumed atj. This lever is provided with an inwardly-extending lat eral projection, j", which works in ahorizontal open slot, k, of the plate K. L is a cam on lever B, and is intended to work against the projection j, so as to bring the cap over the shell just before the lever B comes down. As the lever B is carried down on the right its cam L presses against the projectionj on lever J. The latter is thus caused to turn and carry the slide it forward.

The loading, capping and uncapping are fully described in my Patent No. 345,343, granted July 13, 1886, and the presentfeatures ofinvention are improvements upon the apparatus described in that patent for gun and rifle shells.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the slide h, having the vertical pin 7:, the auxiliary lever J, having the slot j, to receive a pin on said slide, and lateral projection j, the plate K, having the slot 7c, in which said projection works, and the lever B, having the cam L, which acts on said projection, whereby the slide will be actuated at the time and in the manner specified.

In testimony whereof I aifix mysignaturein presence of two witnesses.

FREEMAN O. TVASHBURN.

\Vitnesses:

Beer. 0. SIMPsoN, WALTER SHERWOOD.

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